Wagon end-gate



(No Model.)

F. D. PRISME..

WAGON END GATE.

N0.-35'7,9 85. Patented Feb. l5, 1887.

N. PETERS. PlwmLilhngmpher. washinglan. D. C.

UNITED STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK D. FRISBIE, OF ILANTSV-ILLE, CONNECTICUT.

WAGON ENDHGATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,985, dated February l5, 1887.

Application filed December 20, 1886. Serial No. 222,076.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, FRANK D. FEIsEIE, of Plantsville, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Latchcs for Wagon End-Gates; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this speciiication, and represent, in-

Figure l, a perspective view of the gate, the latcning attachment applied; Fig. 2, an inside view of the plates O, D, and E, showing the mechanism; Fig. 8, a vertical central section through the plate O.

rIhis invention relates to an improvement in a latching device for end-gates for wagons, and particularly to that class in which the gate is hinged to the bottom of the wagon, and provided with a device on each side near the top, whereby the gate is secured to the sides of the wagon. In wagons having this class of gates it is desirable that the locking device should be operated from one point on the gate, preferably the center, to avoid the necessity of reaching both ends of the gate at the same time, and also to permit it to be operated by one hand.

The object of this invention is to construct a locking device which may be operated from the center of the gate, and one which may readily be adapted to gates of various widths.

A represents the end-gate of a wagon, and B B the sides of the wagon. The case or plate ofthe locking device consists of three parts, a center plate, O, and side plates, DE. The combined length of these parts corresponds to the width of the gate. The plate O is constructed with a vertical slot, a. On the inside of the plate O is a vertical slide, b. A handle, d, is arranged on the outside of the plate and is connected to the slide b through the slot a in the plate, so that the slide b may be vertically moved. In the upper part of the slide b is a horizontal slot, e. To the plate O on each side of the slot a a bell-crank lever, F, is hung. One arm of each lever is pivoted to the slide b through the slot, so that as the slide b is (No model.)

moved downward it will turn the levers F F, 5o

as in broken lines, Fig. 2. At the outer ends of the plates D E a spring-bolt, f, is arranged, the said bolts being of a common and wellknowu construction. The tail of each bolt is connected by wire g, chain, or otherwise to the 5 5 free arms of the levers F F. On each side of the wagon is a catch or strike, corresponding to the position of the bolts, and into which the bolts will pass and be held. The ends of the bolts are preferably beveled, so as to more 6o readily enter the strikes.

To drop the gate, press the handle d downward, so as to force down the slide b, and through the slide b movement is imparted to the levers F F, which in turn, by the connectfor the widest gate, and may be cut off to the desired length for shorter gates and the wire correspondingly shortened.

The gateis preferably recessed to receive the bolts and plates, so that they will set Hush with the surface of the gate.

I claim- The herein-described latch for wagon endgates, consisting of the plate O, having the slide b arranged upon its inner side, a handle, d, on the outside of the plate and connected with the slide through a slot, a, in the plate, with the bell-crank levers F F hung upon said plate, one each side said slide, one arm of each of said levers connected to said slide, cornbined with the plates D E, a spring-bolt on each -of said plates adapted to be arranged one each side of the said plate C, and a connection between the said bolts and the other arms of said levers, substantially as described.

FRANK D. FRISBIE.

Witnesses:

FRED C. EARLE, J. H. SnUMwAY. 

